Personality rights means a right of person related to his or her personality. They can be protected under right to privacy or as a property of a person. This is important to mostly celebrities because people use a celebrity name or a photograph to advertise their trade and this usage influences their sales. Anyone can misuse a celebrity’s name or a photograph very easily for their trade, therefore it is important for a celebrity […]
With case C-471/14, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that the relevant date to be taken into account for the calculation of the term of SPCs is the date of notification of the marketing authorization. Moreover, in Case C-492/16 issued on December 20th, 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified how SPCs granted taking into account a wrong marketing authorization date and, hence, granted for a wrong term, […]
It seems that Britney Spears, when she recorded a phonogram of the song “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” never thought that one day she would be protected by Russian court. The rights for that song are owned by a US company Sony Music Entertainment, which licensed the rights to its offspring in Russia with the same name Sony Music Entertainment Ltd. This company has the rights for the song on the Russian territory and […]